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Saturday, May 12, 2012

This is my 2012 BAP challenge about which I have forgotten to send monthly updates to Becky who started this challenge. I am still keen on finishing this piece by the end of the year.

So here is April's work. Picture taken at the end of last month's work.

It continues to work up slower than I imagined it would. There has been less restitching of misplaced motifs than previous months. If I can get south of that horizontal dividing line with May's work then I will still be on track.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

This has been another crazy month...actually, this might be the first sane month I have ever had for stitching since I haven't flitted about 20 projects. I didn't start 20 new projects but stayed with 4 already started pieces. The 3 challenges I joined this year have really helped me to focus.

First up: Gayle Bicknell's Pieces of Eight.

Eight more octagons finished. 1 stalled for changes. Eight more to go.

I stalled on this last one because the colors listed in the instructions are not the colors that look pictured - but I know how misleading that can be given how out of whack my own pictures are which never photograph the cloth colors the way they actually look.

I thought the dark green would work as it is a part of the multi color NN which shows up in a few blocks above it but I finally decided it looks too dark. When I pick it up later in May I will clip out what's there to replace it with a lighter green. From there, I may even be able to zip through the final 8 for another Wipocalypse finish...unless I get to another color decision.

Martina Weber's Egypt Garden Mandala

I am thrilled about the progress on this one, too. I had 2 vacation days which I spent mostly stitching. Not the best picture but I was in a hurry as the camera battery was running down.

I am finally out of the inner sections (except for a few stitches and beads here and there). I am out on the golden sections with trees, pillars and other scenes.

I can't believe I am seeing progress. I think at one point it was hopeless to think I would ever get anything done on this. Now I dare to think I might get it finished. It gets more beautiful as it progresses. Even family members are beginning to comment on it as it doesn't let look like a blue blob.

Nora Corbett: J Fairy

I wanted to work on something small for the instances where I didn't have much time to haul out a bigger project with a lot of components. I thought this would fit the bill. It didn't really. One evening's work amounted to some over 1 flesh on her arm and shoulder.

For some reason, she wasn't the itch I wanted to scratch this month. I think I still wanted to work on Egypt but I just couldn't haul it all out. I looked at some other small projects I had within reach but nothing screamed to me. I switched to knitting some more on another family snuggly afghan slims.